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Overaged underachiever. Former college professor at small women's college in Japan. Now octogenarian, but the old V8 still firing on at least 6 cylinders.

Joined May 2020
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@caseyjohnston @LemieuxLGM Buying a social interaction site: $44 billion Destroying it: priceless
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@emptywheel It just occurred to me that Judge Cannon knows what she's doing. If DOJ appeals her decision, and a higher court reverses it, then Trump could appeal that decision all the way to SCOTUS--and a 6-3 or 5-4 ruling in Trump's favor.
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@AsheeshKSi I just remember my Neo-Marxist professors, who were aghast at the union movement among grad students and visiting lecturers.
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@SassyGrammy1 @DJJudd I have a plan to bring shuttle buses and I'll reveal it in two weeks.
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@Brandi_Buchman It's doubly smart to annoy your judge on the weekend.
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@MontyBoa99 @novus08297901 Whatever he owes, he won't have the wherewithal to pay. I suspect that his properties are so highly leveraged (sometimes, illegally, more than once) that there is little or no real equity in his properties. Also, he is on the hook for $200 million more in Scotland.
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@drvolts @digby56 Digby is never guilty of failing to anticipate how bad Republicans will be.
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@stuartpstevens @digby56 Certainly all House members who claim the election was fraudulent should not be seated, as they have made it abundantly clear that they do not believe they were legally elected.
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@theliamnissan Is there a single "longtime industry professional" who actually believes that Liam Nissan is the noted film actor? What else can you say than, "The stupid, it burns." (From a long-ago industry professional)
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For years I've said, thy will cry, "Why didn't you warn us?"
@MichaelEMann
Prof Michael E. Mann
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Here's what I was doing twenty five years ago:
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@TracesofTexas On the Bonanza set, I once bummed a cigarette from Dan. "Thanks," I said, "I haven't had a smoke in three weeks." Dan jerked the cigarette out of my mouth--"I'm not gonna be the cause of you startin' to smoke again." I haven't had a cigarette for 55 years, 3 months and 2 days.
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@mrclean2012 @ericcervini Just in the not yet category. They've been threatening violence--we'll see if they carry it out from now.
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@softtail65 The Mushroom Cloud
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@EricBoehlert I accidentally committed these felonies because I was too busy committing other felonies.
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@BRRubin @edroso A Sunni organization based in a Shiite nation? Sure.
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@JoeRobinEnjoyer Taking the really long view, because those immigrants who are permitted to stay face an 8-10 year wait before they can apply for citizenship. Unless they are Rupert Murdoch, who can just buy a Congress to give him a passport.
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Why do you think they want to destroy the Post Office?
@RalphNader
Ralph Nader
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From the book First Class, by Christopher Shaw How Cheap Postal Rates for Books and Nonprofits Contributed to American Democracy via @lithub
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@StevenTDennis And yet Rick Scott sits in the Senate.
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Thank you, thank you all. Living an expat life halfway around the world can be lonely, and seeing my country in danger of falling into autocracy makes it worse. I'm glad there are so many people who really care about America. I was brought up on dreams of a better future.
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@highbrow_nobrow Well, because Melania won't travel or campaign with him, he has to attack his opponent for her missing spouse. It's by way of compensation.
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@strobetalbott @neal_katyal More than that, you have to figure in the 30% or more of Americans who spent their entire school life in Christian madrassas, where clear thinking and intellectual rigor are not encouraged.
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@epicciuto @LemieuxLGM Mitt Romney's grandparents were stripped of their US citizenship when they fled to Mexico to preserve their practice of polygamy. Mitt's father, George, was born in Mexico of parents who were no longer citizens; thus he entered the US illegally--but miraculously was a citizen.
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Well, yes, basically.
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@gggirl924 @LondonReed7 Nah. Says octogenarian. In my 50's I used to tell my students that they were lucky, because when they look in the mirror, they see themselves. I said, "When I look in the mirror, I see my father."
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@highbrow_nobrow @Jezebel Perhaps he should realize that no one is defending them because their behavior is indefensible.
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@mtsw @CarlNyberg312 Perhaps it would be more accurate to say, since they can go after any one of us, they should be able to go after the President as well.
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You understand that the billionaires have taken everything the poor and former middle class own, and now their next target is the millionaires.
@RaggedTP
Ragged Trousered Philanderer
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The capitalist class now owns almost everything there is to be owned. The giant game of Monopoly will continue into the future with the players at the top table competing to own the spiralling debts and future servitude of your children and grandchildren.
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@sparrowmedia @emptywheel Obscuring a license plate must be a legal infraction, at the least. Does doing so in order to cover criminal activity make it a crime?
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@NatalieSekletar @emptywheel Hope they'll do it again.
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@MSNBC I thought you would have stopped pushing this trash by now. I certainly don't need to see it republished daily.
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@TracesofTexas As a fellow 82 year old, I see that I have wasted the past 65 or so years shaving.
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@stevenmazie You'd be scared, too, if your boss had put out a hit order on you and you still had to work for him for another two weeks.
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@emptywheel Been saying it over and over. If they think Biden was fraudulently elected, then they believe they were fraudulently elected. Therefore, they shouldn't be seated.
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@AtlRey @DrLearnALot It's much easier to go after the self-employed person or contract worker--not only can they not fight back, the IRS can instill fear into the heart of the average taxpayer. The rich have accountants and lawyers who argue and delay.
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@page88 As a child, I went to bed listening to a powerful Mexican radio station after local stations went off the air. I remember an ad--"Just send two dollars to PO Box 25, Clint, Texas, for your genuine autographed picture of Jesus Christ."
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@edburmila I was an older student in grad school, about the same age as my professors. 30-odd years later, I am still taken by the positive response to the "Texas Massacre*" of my so-called "Marxist" professors. *Firing of all the non-tenured faculty at UT in response to a court decision.
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@peterbakernyt And that's not true. They wanted the count halted, and they got it halted.
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@TracesofTexas My Dad was from Timpson, but one of his aunts married into a Tenaha family. You know there was a song about an East Texas railroad: "Timpson, Tenaha, Bobo and Blair."
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@msmacb @MollyJongFast Koch, Walton, Zuckerberg, Musk, Adelson, Thiel. . .Soros is badly outnumbered.
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@MSNBC @MaddowBlog I don't think a sternly worded letter is what is needed. A real investigation by the Justice department seems to be warranted in this case.
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@JuliusGoat @pocojump I remember one roundtable here in Japan, when the ideas of the right-wing Imperialist novelist Yukio Mishima were being discussed, and one of the panelists actually said that he did not believe that Democracy was right for Japan.
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@chrislhayes @hughhewitt What part of "others, known and unknown" does he not understand?
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@Aleesha60 @meiselasb @lflorepolitics If he goes to jail, they'll at least take away his phone.
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@highbrow_nobrow Those kids don't look all that happy to be eligible for employment in the mills.
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@highbrow_nobrow We like this medicine better because, unlike the other medicine we developed that cures the condition, it alleviates some of the symptoms, and we have another drug in testing now that alleviates a few more of the symptoms.
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@TracesofTexas I was a teenage driver of one of those GM cars--a Pontiac Super Chief.
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Why not both?
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Damaan, AKA "Philly's Finest"!
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear It's got to be taught from year to year It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught --Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific)
@gggirl924
Jerseygirl #FBR ๐ŸŸง
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Stop teaching children to hate. This is how you stop hatred. Theyโ€™re learning it from you and your actions. They mimic you.
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@OccupyDemocrats "I've been bankrupt eight or ten times already, but I owe so much money to the banks that they always bail me out." Not sure it will happen again.
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@highbrow_nobrow Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka, continued to do business for four years in the White House, during which time he received a lifesaving loan from Qatar for his Satanic (/s) property in NYC BEFORE he walked off with $2 billion from Saudi Arabia. Agreed. there's no comparison.
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@JC_Christian @ACTBrigitte I bet James Madison paid good money to have someone blow his flute.
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Once more, the Times outperforms the pitchbot.
@DougJBalloon
New York Times Pitchbot
2 years
A Fire Island Upgrade for Around $1 Million? Their Options Were Limited. - The New York Times
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@woofknight @iamAtheistGirl I don't remember exactly what grade I was in when it was added, but when we had to say the Pledge, I was so offended by the addition of "under God" that I would say, mffmff instead. I think that my aesthetic sense was also offended, because it ruined the scan.
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@rgoodlaw Some Republican Senators might decide to call in sick, reducing the number required for conviction. Also, Trump can be convicted even after he leaves office.
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@mkeelanbishop @MollyJongFast @thedailybeast When will we have a post office? Interestingly, mail that once took 4 days from Japan to US was taking 2 weeks to 3 months--but my most recent Japan-US mail took less than a week. Election over--no need to delay?
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@TracesofTexas @iowahawkblog I played in her (huge) garden a couple of times as a child. I think we sneaked in.
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@gastropoda What did he shoot on the back nine?
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Can you give them clear instructions to go after the big guys? Little guys fear the IRS because it spends so much of its time and energy targeting the self-employed, sole proprietors and small businesses, who are asymmetrically defenseless.
@ewarren
Elizabeth Warren
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Wealthy tax cheats and big corporations are sitting on heaps of unpaid taxes. If we give the IRS the resources they need to go after them, we can invest in a future for all of our kids.
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@emptywheel @lrozen When I moved to Japan, refrigerator space was limited, so I kept the turkey (buying a turkey here is another story) outside in a storage shed. Now, 28 years later, it's too warm in late November to do so.
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@TheSnarkTank99 Well, see, the earth was a lot smaller then, before it got all waterlogged and swollen up to its present size, so it was easier for the critters to get there.
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@IreneHLin @adamdavidson That rates ten hardy har hars on the Gleason scale. Racism allowed him to break through the blue wall of the Midwest.
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@caitoz @pocojump It's what happens as empires begin to decay--first, the military is professionalized, mercenaries are enabled, and the budgets for those activities far exceed the economic value of retaining the empire.
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@joshtpm @fakedansavage Homophobic homoerotica.
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@tomtomorrow Be sure to prosecute the embezzler in your company BEFORE you fire him.
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@edroso @CharlesPPierce @stuartpstevens @Satiristas @GOP Some Republicans, including Prescott Bush, Pappy Bush's father, tried to talk General Smedley Butler into staging a coup against FDR. Insurrection is like heroin to them.
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Too many dollars, not enough sense.
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@EricKleefeld @joshtpm But the 2000 election WAS stolen.
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@TracesofTexas I do happen to be so old that I remember the wringer washer in our Houston garage.
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@TracesofTexas The knock on Houston shouldn't go unnoticed--the black mud being knee-deep. Heck, by the 1940's, when I was a boy, the mud was only ankle-deep.
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No, Mitt was just evading taxation by parking money in Cayman bank accounts.
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Regina Schrambling
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Mitt at least wasnโ€™t ripping off taxpayers while bending campaign laws.
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@dylanlscott @MollyJongFast C'mon, people, Dewey called Truman a Communist.
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@theserfstv @MollyJongFast In the late '60's, young women who were hired as ushers at NBC in LA were warned at the beginning not to agree to go out on a date with Bill Cosby.
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@wvumath @chrislhayes In West Virginny, we don't need nothin' but Readin 'n Ritin and Rithmatick.
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@Maximumatheist @ZephyrNCC17011 Maybe we can convert them to dance halls.
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Which cost at least $800 to manufacture.
@DrLearnALot
drlearnalot, RL voodoo doll
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Cooperation. RT California thieves swarm Louis Vuitton store, steal more than $100,000 in handbags, police say
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@highbrow_nobrow Wendi Deng, presumed Chinese spy and friend of Ivanka Trump, is a former spouse of Rupert Murdoch and also former girlfriend of Vladimir Putin.
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@DougJBalloon Incredible that it took Elon Musk to polish Bill Gates's image.
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@SebastianGarof5 @BlueSapphire916 I have to thank you for making me just miss this list--you helped push me just over 1k already.
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@MatthewDownhour @edroso I won't go to heaven when I die, but in my life I have saved at least two preschoolers (one of the my own) from certain death by preventing them from running into the street when cars were coming.
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@Ted_Scheinman @gastropoda Yardley, Yates and Thatcher--they can start their own law firm.
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@leonardpierce @edroso Sounds more like a Hoover Fellow.
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@TracesofTexas At 1 am it's finally just about cool enough to sit out there.
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I thank Monica for her help in finding me new followers. Pretty soon, I might have to start feeling responsible for the things I write.
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@neeratanden Costs far too much, caves to big pharma, doesn't cover everyone. Compared to Canada, UK, France, Japan, etc., it lacks in every way. Be less proud and get more active.
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@TristanSnell Given her questionable mob association, she may have been reminded that the Family never forgets. So she's not only looking to do a favor for Trump, she's also looking over her shoulder.
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@PatsPanthersWin @DougJBalloon You don't even have to write 'em yourself anymore.
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@Tim13958749 @TimTebow For the rest of us, it is home. If you're a guest here, you shouldn't piss on the living room rug or shit on the lawn. Think of that bathroom sign: We aim to please. You aim, too, please.
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@ClaraJeffery @charles_gaba Every time I pass a parking lot, I have long had the same question: why don't they cover it with solar panels?
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Or if cops were actually trained to be peacekeepers.
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Constantly thinking about all the life-affirming services and amenities Chicago could provide if we weren't wasting so much money on cops.
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@anammostarac @JC_Christian The pencil is mightier than the sword.
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@georgiaboy2020 @ArbredH @srl @EliStokols States' rights only apply to Republican states, and only on issues that favor entrenched interests, dontcha know?
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@edroso @paleofuture @Noahpinion When I was middle-aged in the '80's, it seemed like Republicanism was about crushing unions, eliminating environmental regulations and lowering taxes on the richest 1%.
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France has an extradition treaty, so he won't be able to relax there. If not "Russher", maybe the Gulf States--"Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, it's far away. . ."
@UROCKlive1
Khashoggiโ€™s Ghost ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒป
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Raise your hand if you would prefer this, too.โœ‹
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@DougJBalloon So Pence has aborted his campaign?
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@MorphoseKate @spice_dom @AnthonyTilghman Great to see all those Toyotas, Nissans, etc. being so patriotic.
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@ramsincanon How many NGOs have followed the path of University administrations and are now paying big salaries "to attract the best talent"?
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Indeed, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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